07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
‘Mutual Interest' carries echoes of Edith Wharton
In her introduction to 'The House of Mirth' (1905), Edith Wharton explained that she was determined to expose New York high society in the late 1800s as a 'hot-house of tradition and conventions.' Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, in her sharp and lively second novel, 'Mutual Interest,' is after much the same thing. The plot, though, turns on matters that Wharton would have blushed to consider.
